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Declining balance, declining chances

BY ALEX DAWSON Staff Writer Student Congress is pursuing a declining balance meal plan that would give Doane students more control over the cost of food on campus.

The new system would allow students to carry money on their ID cards that could be used for purchasing sole items as opposed to using a meal credit for an entire meal. The money could be used at Tiger Inn and Common Grounds to purchase food and drinks separately, allowing students to buy only what they need.

Kim Jacobs, student leadership vice president and StuCo adviser, is set to meet with the managers of Sodexo over spring break to discuss the possible plans. She said she would then meet with StuCo to discuss the options offered to the school and to get their feedback before the information would be made available to students.

“I’m hoping to provide StuCo with three options, and then they will ask the student body which is preferred,” Jacobs said.

The main reason for the change would be to give students more options and a greater sense of control over what

“Instead of paying $7 for a scone and coffee, you’ll pay whatever a scone or a coffee is worth.”

Laura Jacob-StuCo President they buy, Jacobs said. She said a new plan would help students feel that they are getting a better value.

Laura Jacob, StuCo president, said the plan would save students money because they would now pay for what they wanted.

“Instead of paying $7 for a scone and coffee, you’ll pay

whatever a scone or a coffee is worth,” Jacob said.

Currently students are getting a good deal at the cafeteria with the all you can eat option, but downstairs they are losing money, Jacob said. With a declining balance plan if you don’t want a drink but you want two muffins, you wouldn’t be limited to using two

meal credits, she said.

The decision to look at alternative meal plans was the first step in a process that could take years, Jacob said.

She said it all depended on the cost of updating the software currently installed on campus. It is not yet known whether the meal plan software is capable of handling such a change, Geis said, and updating the software could be a very expensive process.

“If (the software) is incompatible, it is highly doubtful we will have a declining meal plan by next year,” Geis said.

“Anytime you undergo a huge

change, it takes time.”

Next year the 21 regular meal plan would still be in place due to the number of incoming students who have already been promised this in their financial aid package, Jacobs said. Most schools that have a declining balance meal plan also have a 21 meal plan, and Jacobs said that Doane would also do this because the college had already been advertising it.

“Looking at meal plan options is something schools do on a regular basis,” Jacobs said.

“A lot of different pieces have to come together, but we are in the process.”

Carter plans growth and

improvement President Jacque Carter’s plan focused on reorganizing, improving, and growing Doane

BY ERIN BELL Staff Writer Doane is developing its strategic plan, outlining its goals for the future, and the restructuring of administration positions is part of that future.

The major changes to administration will include the expansion of Joel Weyand’s role as Admission Vice President to Enrollment Services and Marketing Vice President.

The Office of Communications and Marketing and Athletics Department will now work under Weyand, President Jacque Carter said.

“This will create some efficiencies, working with Greg Heier, Jacque Pomajzl, and kyle McMurray,” Weyand said.

Carter said the expansion of Weyand’s role would allow for better communication and planning when recruiting new students, since both departments played a big role in recruitment.

“It just made a lot of sense to align those offices behind the Nate Knobel/The Owl admissions office so that when parents and students look at Doane College to attend that all of our materials are lined up to

Doane looks at Omaha to grow DoestabStaff Writer lished i t s first graduate program for adult and non-traditional learners in Lincoln in 1981 and opened a second in 2003 in Grand Island. The college is now discussing the possibility of another program in Omaha.

“We think that our kind of adult programs and graduate programs are actually better for students to take than other schools’ programs because we emphasize the importance of liberal arts,” Doane College President Jacque Carter said. “So we figure why should we not offer students in the Omaha region the same quality program that people in Grand Island and Lincoln can take?”

The programs in Lincoln and Grand Island have been successful, so the college felt there might be students interested in a Doane education in Omaha, Carter said.

Students in the graduate program take Doane Plan classes and classes that are focused on their profession, said John Burney, academic affairs vice president.

Carter said the college was considering Omaha as the location for another graduate program because it was the largest city in Nebraska, which provided a large market of students.

A marketing study would be done before Doane made the decision to start a graduate program in Omaha, though, Burney said. ane

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help them make the decision,” Carter said.

Weyand will also be appointed as the Chairman of the Financial Aid Award Committee.

Weyand would not be able to oversee these new duties on the Crete, Lincoln and Grand Island campuses without additional assistance, Carter said.

Either an assistant or associate vice president or a director will be appointed to help Weyand.

The organizational structure of the Academic Affairs Office will also change.

In order to ease the workload of Academic Affairs Vice President John Burney, the college plans to hire an associate vice president in he department.

Burney said one duties the new administrator would focus on would be developing experiential learning programs.

“Experiential learning is a broad term we use for things where students get outside the classroom, but it is credit bearing still,” he said.

Undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning and credit bearing internships would be the types of programs the academic affairs associate vice president

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would fall into the category of experiential learning, he said.

The associate vice president would also work to develop learning assessments.

Burney said the learning assessments developed would measure the effectiveness of Doane’s programs.

“In the Doane Plan we’ve said we’ve taught students about critical thinking, cultural issues, writing--can we demonstrate that?” He said. “Are our programs as a whole doing their job?”

Burney said he thought the new hire would be a good thing.

“A lot of faculty have been telling me I need a person to help out,” he said.

Burney said the new additions to administration would not be hired right away, though.

“It’s a couple of years out before this would be put in place,” he said. “We need to be able to fit it into our budget.”

Carter said the changes that Doane will make, though, would help Doane become an even stronger college.

“This is a new chapter in Doane’s story that we’re experiencing right now and it’s an opportunity for Doane,” he said.

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Fuhrer renovations revamped

BY JAY GROTE Staff Writer Plans for Doane's track facilities are being revised after leaders on campus saw a need to address new concerns.

Doane President Jacque Carter said since the original plans were drawn to simply expand Fuhrer Fieldhouse to fit a full size track. After analyzing the plans once again with an eye for new opportunities, Carter said the plans needed to be reviewed to ensure a proper investment for years to come.

“We found things that we should probably fix or improve that weren’t in the original drawings,” Carter said.

The boilers, chillers, roof, and locker rooms were all things that

Carter said were reevaluated.

Most recently, the reviews were taken to the Board of Trustees who authorized the new recommendations to be sent to the architects for redrawing. Following that, Carter said meetings would be held to approve the new designs.

The bidding process for construction will begin once the new drawing are approved by the Trustees.

“The potential is there to begin construction over the summer or next semester,” Carter said.

Athletic Director Greg Heier said he looked forward to all of the improvements that would go into Fuhrer.

“The track surface is showing lots of wear.” Heier said. “Regardless of what we do, that sur-

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face needs to be replaced.”

Heier said the attendance at indoor track and field meets was impacted by the quality of the Fuhrer track.

“The number of teams that are coming are splitting between us and Concordia. That hurts attendance – that hurts the competition of the meets.” Heier said.

Both Heier and Carter said one of the principle motivators to renovate Fuhrer was to attract people. By expanding the track and implementing other improvements Doane hoped to keep a large track team happy, appeal to prospective students and provide opportunities for recreational use.

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Alumnus lives Doane

BY AILEEN GELB Staff Writer Doane alumnus and Crete resident John Mekota helped with D-Day, corrected a gross typographical error made by MIT, fell in love and received an award named after himself all in just 90 years.

Mekota, who now resides in Garden Square Assisted Living Center, loves to see visitors and speak to students.

“People will visit thinking they’re doing him a favor,” Alec Engebretson, professor of science and technology, said. “But really there’s so much to learn from him that he does them the favor.”

Despite his life full of learning and ever-lasting projects, Mekota said he was far from finished.

Mekota said a future goal of his was to work with Doane instructors Mark Plano Clark and Engebretson to learn more about computers on campus.

“He’s an individual who is always thinking,”

Engebretson said. “He just turned 90 this past year, so even after he retired, he came back to Doane. He’s always been a wonderful alumni and friend of the college.”

One of his current projects is trying to make trains more efficient, Plano Clark said.

“He has this great idea that if you just had these trains, you could put your car on a train and travel that way.” Plano Clark said. “He just thinks that would be a really cool thing to have in this country, which would conserve energy and basically save on infrastructure. But it’s a pretty big project.”

Engebretson said Mekota has been back in Crete for about five years.

In the 67 years Mekota lived outside of Crete, much was spent in and around Boston.

Shortly after he graduated, Mekota was an officer for the U.S. Navy, worked for Submarine Signal Company, Raytheon Corporation, and served as an independent consultant and

system design reviewer, according to an alumni awards paper written by Joyce Colleen Jeffries.

Mekota said he chose to go to Doane because he already lived in the community and knew half of the professors before he even enrolled. He said he kept busy with his studies at Doane, triple majoring in physics, chemistry, and mathematics.

“That’s very unusual,” Plano Clark said. “We’ve had one student other than John that I know of that triple majored in the sciences, you have to be pretty dedicated.”

Mekota enjoyed his time at Doane and has given back to the college with both his time and his gifts, according to Engebretson, and received a Builder Award in May 2003.

Shortly after, Mekota received the John E. Mekota award for computer sciences.

“He’s been really good at coming to talk to the computer science classes,” Plano Clark said. “He loves to talk about his experi-

ences with computers and their impact on society as a whole.”

Although Mekota enjoys speaking with students and faculty at Doane, he has not come to visit recently, Engebretson said.

“He used to walk over here regularly,” Plano Clark said. “But I really can’t remember the last time he was here. It seems like it’s probably been a year.”

Mekota is becoming less and less mobile, now that he’s reached 90, Engebretson said.

“John (Mekota) loves to have conversations with others,” Engebretson said.

“He would love to have students visit him.”

Engebretson said Mekota loved the education he got at Doane.

“He really does capture the expectation that Doane has of all of its graduates to be a life long learner.” Engebretson said. “He captures that experience.”

If you’re interested in finding out more about Doane alumni like Mekota, check out www.doanealumni.com.

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‘Love Week’ to spread tolerance message Staff Writer Bubble blowing, bake sales and BLT’s are ahead for Doane’s Queer-Straight Alliance (QSA).

The members of QSA met last week to discuss the upcoming Love Week.

During Love Week, the members of QSA will put on different events and reserve the green desk outside of the cafeteria in order to raise awareness in the community, Courtney Bashore, QSA vice president said.

“Love week is a week of wonders where basically we all come out of our little Curtis Room and we say, ‘here we are world!’” QSA President Bri McGuffey said.

The activities for the week include BLT’s on the Perry patio, a questionnaire with prizes,

a screening of “For the Bible Tells Me So” and a bake sale.

The goal is to educate students and to see where Doane is as far as students’ attitudes, McGuffey said.

“We’re giving out a questionnaire for students to answer,” McGuffey said. “Then we’ll show the results.”

The results and stories provided by the questionnaire will be made into a collage and presented to the students.

Love Week will be the week after spring break this year, junior Kayla Tindle said.

“It’s a great way to start after spring break,” Tindle said.

“It’s like crazy Greek Week stuff, then spring break, then Love Week.”

QSA hopes to gain more support and awareness through Love Week, and the group is

BRI MCGUFFEY QSA President hoping to make educational pamphlets on how to deal with sexuality readily available throughout campus, Bashore said.

Before Love Week, QSA will attend a speech by Ryan Sallans, a transgendered speaker. At 11 a.m. on March 15 in the Whitcomb Lee Conservatory, Sallans will come to speak at Doane about the issues of gender and sexual identity in society as well as his transition from female to male.

Doane graduate struggles to find dream job, pay back debt

Past Due: Your Student

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Debt on Notice

Staff Writer Doane graduate Sarah Beasley never thought being a music teacher would make her rich.

But $70,000 of student debt later, Beasley would have done things differently.

“I feel like I was sold the Doane Dream,” Beasley said. “Now I’m working a minimum wage job.”

Beasley graduated in four years with a music education degree. She currently substitute teaches two to three times a week for Crete and Lincoln Public Schools. Despite monthly payments, Beasley said she had not made much progress in reducing her debt.

“Technically, I’m on a ten year plan, but it will take longer,” Beasley said. “I’m going to be paying until I’m dead.”

The average debt of a Doane graduate was $20,748 in 2010, according to The Project on Student Debt. In the same year, 77 percent of students left Doane with some student debt. The same source reports that the Nebraska colleges average $21, 227 in student debt with 61 percent of students in debt upon graduation.

To Beasley, those numbers don’t mean much.

“I was told that Doane had a 98 percent job placement in my field of study. I fall in that 2 per-

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SARAH BEASLEY Doane Graduate cent,” Beasley said. “It’s all just a lot of numbers.”

Beasley said she hasn’t given up on finding her dream job, but she has given up on finding all the answers.

“I just don’t know where I went wrong,” she said.

Beasley isn’t alone.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the unemployment rate for recent college graduates is 8.3 percent.

Looking back, Beasley said she should have convinced her parents to take out low fixed interest rate Parent PLUS loans instead of taking out high-interest rate private loans. She said she would have also sought out a larger scholarship package from other schools. Most importantly, Beasley would have kept better track of her debt.

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Check out our fact box complete with a debt calculator “I didn’t really calculate how much money I was taking out each semester,” Beasley said.

Numerous interviews, countless applications and a brief stint as a Target employee have given Beasley time to reflect on the value of her Doane education.

“I’m prepared to teach,” Beasley said. “It’s a quality education, but it’s not worth that much.”

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Last year’s Miss Relay Host Jason Helgren (left) interviews Ryan Schilling during the Relay For Life event. The contest requires participants to dress as women and compete to raise money for Relay.

BY ALYSSA BOUC Life + Leisure Editor Doane College Relay For Life is on track to cross the finish line ahead of Nebraska Wesleyan once again.

Doane has raised $9,507 compared to Wesleyan’s $8,036 as of March 5.

“Nobody wants to lose to Wesleyan,” senior Relay Member Jessica Brown said. “Especially with something as big as Relay at Doane, it’s not a question of whether or not we’ll win; it’s a question of how greatly we will beat them.”

A twist has been added to the rivalry as the radio station KFRX will broadcast both Doane and Wesleyan’s events live on April 13.

Junior Nicole Tegtmeier, executive co-chair of Doane Relay, said she was both excited and nervous about the broadcast.

“It (the broadcast) will be going back and forth between Wesleyan and Doane,” Tegtmeier said. “Everybody will know.”

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ane’s fundraising efforts barely fell short of its $70,000 goal, and this year the group set a goal of $75,000.

Community support has been the key to reaching the goal so far.

Relay recently hosted a spaghetti feed and a benefit night at Noodles and Company in Lincoln.

Tegtmeier said the spaghetti feed raised $1,006; about $150 more than last year.

Brown said the spaghetti feed served more than 120 people.

“It was great to see the community supporting Relay,” Brown said. “It (the spaghetti feed) is always a great community event.”

While the exact amount of money raised from Noodles and Company is still being calculated, Brown said she was optimistic about the results.

Another fundraiser will be held today at Kava House Café.

Brown said Relay members will serve the customers in the café and Kava House will donate ten percent of their sales from the entire day to

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“Everyone needs to go there to not only support our community and Kava House, but to support Relay for Life,” Brown said.

Brown said this was the first year Relay hosted an event at Kava House, and it would hopefully be the first of many.

Relay Adviser Jay Fennell said he encouraged students to raise money for Relay before the event, and it was not too late to sign up for a team.

Fennell said you can sign up by visiting relayforlife.org/ doanecollegene and clicking the purple button marked “sign up.”

While Relay has raised 12 percent of their goal, there is still work to be done.

Tegtmeier said the majority of the money raised for Relay takes place at the actual event, but she encouraged teams to have fundraisers prior to the event.

“The key is getting the community involved,” Tegtmeier said. “Teams must fundraise outside the event and contact family and friends to get people there.”

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“After looking at all that, we will make our decision,” Burney said. “Does it make sense to try to expand to Omaha?”

Janice Hadfield, undergraduate studies director at Doane Lincoln, said if the program seemed feasible then it would go on the strategic plan to be approved in May. Julie Schmidt, treasurer and finance and administration vice president, said if the graduate program in Omaha seemed financially viable, there would be no reason not to open another program.

Schmidt said the Lincoln and Grand Island campuses currently provided an additional source of revenue for the Crete campus.

The Crete campus benefited the other campuses by providing its services in the Business Office and other areas, so the Lincoln and Grand Island campuses had fewer employees.

However, introducing a program in the largest city in Nebraska could help spread Doane’s name, Carter said.

“In order to get the attention of the nation, we have to get beyond Crete,” Carter said. “I figured on our way to the world, we could stop off in Omaha.”

BY ALISHA FORBES Staff Writer Expect to receive more emails from the Safety Office as it tries preventative measures, based on three years of crime statistics, to keep you safer on campus.

“Now that we actually have a Safety Office, and this will be our fourth year, we now have three years’ worth of data related to crime across the entire campus that really Doane College had not had before,” Russ Hewitt, student leadership associate dean said.

Hewitt said the Safety Office would use this data to make things safer on campus by focusing on the most important issues.

For example, the Safety Office has noted during the past three years that burglaries increase in the spring as weather improves. Students leave windows open and fail to lock their dorm rooms.

Hewitt said the Safety Office worked with Doane Maintenance to seal windows closest to doors to reduce these burglaries.

Before the Safety Office was established in 2009, crimes would have most likely been reported to custodians, which

would have been relayed to the Business Office until it reached the Crete Police Department, Hewitt said.

But now, the Safety Office is notified immediately of crimes and it is keeping records.

“I think that (communication) is really what drives down crime rates because the people who are potential victims are more aware,” Hewitt said.

The Safety Office uses many avenues of communication, such as sending campus alerts through e-mails, mobile phones, pagers and the Doane website.

“It is awareness and the community being willing to look out for each other,” Hewitt said.

Senior Adrian Draney agreed, but thought other factors were also involved.

“I would say education and the presence of the Safety Office have had an influence,” Draney said. “It could also be a matter of a decreased party atmosphere on campus, which (I think) leads to less of these crimes.”

Doane’s crime report will show an increase in burglaries for 2011, Hewitt said.

Hewitt said there were 20 reported burglaries for this last year; most of them happened in April.

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“A lot of them (Safety’s sugHewitt said he thought the Draney said he would be ingestions to prevent theft) should new alcohol policies for this year terested to see how many Doane be common sense pieces of had driven down these numbers students have been caught in aladvice, but I still find myself because student confusion de- cohol violations off campus. leaving my stuff out because I creased.

“I feel like, while there are feel safe in this environment,” The new policy allows a room a lot less (alcohol violations) Draney said. of 21-year-olds to apply for alco- happening on Doane’s campus, The number of liquor and hol tolerant room status and for it’s because a lot of people have drug violations increased from 21-year-olds to move off cam- taken their drinking off cam2008 to 2010, but could drop pus. pus,” Draney said. “While this for 2011.

“The students are doing a might potentially lift liability off “For what I’ve seen this year great job with complying, and of the college, I feel like it’s actu(fall 2011), we’ve had very few that’s probably 99 percent of it ally putting students in greater judicial affairs cases related to (alcohol policy violation reduc- danger.”

StuCo drops members

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Floor plans of Fuhrer renovations.

from p. 1 FUHRER Heier said that additional recreational opportunities would be created for the whole campus by utilizing more efficient designs and use of space.

By building a larger track to have four courts parallel to each other, Heier said the recreational use of the field house would be increased. By doing that Doane would be in a better position to compete for prospects looking for a modern track program.

Freshman track athlete Kayla Ambrose said that while Doane's facilities did cause some

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concern in choosing which school to attend, she chose Doane for the coaches.

“For me it was about the coaches and people that occupied these facilities that really impacted my decision,” Ambrose said.

Concerning the updates, Ambrose said she liked how convenient the track currently was, but the larger track was a definite priority.

“The field events, as well as other sports that practice in there, wouldn't be cramped and have more space and probably better equipment to work with,” Ambrose said.

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Student Congress removed two senators in Sunday’s meeting.

Junior Joe Knott and senior Dustin Schwartz will no longer serve on StuCo. “I’d rather function as 14 people who do want to be here than 16 who don’t,” StuCo President Laura Jacob said.

StuCo was supposed to have 17 members, but was reduced to 14 because of the removal of Knott and Schwartz along with the resignation of another senator.

Junior Nicole Tegtmeier resigned from StuCo a few weeks ago because her schedule was too full, Kim Jacobs, student congress supervisor, said. Jacobs said Tegtmeier gave the decision a lot of thought, and that it was a hard decision for her. “(Tegtmeier) fulfilled her responsibilities,” Jacobs said. “She did that (resigned) in a very responsible, deliberate way.”

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“It would be an ideal spot for someone who wants to run for StuCo next year,” Jacob said.

Jacobs said she thought sometimes students didn’t understand how much time a position on StuCo would take.

StuCo Vice President Adam Hunke, said he thought there was a lack of commitment in the members that were removed.

“They didn’t know what they were signing up for,” Hunke said.

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Jacob contacted Knott and Schwartz before she announced their removal on Sunday.

“I’m really appreciative of all the people in this room that work really hard and know the time and dedication it takes,” Jacob said.

Schwartz said his experience with StuCo was a good one.

“I found out a lot of things about StuCo that I didn’t know before,” Schwartz said. “I realized that they do more than what people think they do.”

Schwartz said he would continue to pursue the rodeo club project he was working on.

Hunke said he would vote for someone with commitment and work ethic.

Jacobs said she would encourage students to elect senators that were serious about putting their name on the ballot.

“They have to have the motivation because it is a significant responsibility,” Jacobs said. “It’s the responsibility of the student body to choose who will have their best interests in mind.”

Knott did not respond to emails from the reporter.

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All senators signed an expectations form when they agreed to serve on StuCo, Jacobs said. The form said each member was permitted two unexcused absences per semester and that exceeding that limit would be cause for evaluation and removal from the Congress.

Schwartz said he was aware of the policy, but was unable to attend StuCo meetings because of his weekend obligations to rodeo.

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Switch to DcTV, channel 21, on Sunday March, 11 at 5 p.m., to watch The Community of Underage Drinking. This discussion with community officials, Peer Judicial Board members, and students will discuss on and off campus underage drinking. You can also tune into 91.9 KDNE or stream it live at www. doane.edu/kdne. It will air again on Monday, at 7:30 p.m. following Doane Weekly.

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Relay funds should beat Wesleyan Doane students should raise funds to compete against rivals

It’s extremely difficult these days to find someone who has not been personally impacted by cancer. Whether it be through a direct connection, a family member, a friend or simply an acquaintance, the disease has altered the lives of millions.

According to the Relay For Life website “no matter why you take part in Relay, however, one thing is clear: with every step you take, you are helping the American Cancer Society save lives. With your help, we aren’t just fighting one type of cancer – we’re fighting for every birthday threatened by every cancer in every community. Each person who shares the Relay experience can take pride in knowing that they are working to create a world where this disease will no longer threaten the lives of our loved ones or claim another year of anyone’s life.”

No matter what the reason is, Doane needs to fight harder for donations.

If you’re not motivated by the idea of raising money for the American Cancer Society already, maybe our competition against Wesleyan University will motivate you.

Wesleyan is holding its Relay For Life event on the same night we are. The radio station KFRX will be broadcasting live from both locations and updating listeners on the progress of both events.

Do we really want all of Lincoln and the surrounding areas to know we are slacking compared to Wesleyan? Definitely not.

If you haven’t started fundraising already, you should start now. Send letters to family, friends, coworkers, old teachers and everybody else you could think of. Heck, open up a phone book and send letters to random people. Chances are, they have a story to tell and they may even have an extra dollar or two to give to a great cause. Worst case scenario is that they’re a Wesleyan graduate and support that Relay For Life instead of Doane’s. Even then, at least you got the word out about the event and supported the American Cancer Society- even though it wasn’t through the route you desired.

Our football team blew away the Prairie Wolves 27-3 at the Wesleyan Homecoming game this year. Our volleyball team beat Wesleyan twice in the regular season. Our track and field teams continue to outscore the Prairie Wolves at numerous meets.

Let’s continue the tradition of victory at Relay For Life this year.

Go to Kava House Cafe tonight for Zesto’s ice cream or some delicious wings. Ten percent of their proceeds from the day will go to Doane’s Relay.

Don’t stop there. If you haven’t made a team, start one or join one with a friend. If you have a creative gift to share with the rest of the world, start thinking of ways to utilize it and raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Or start collecting donations from businesses around your hometown to create a basket of goods for the silent auction the night of the event.

And definitely mark your calendars. April 13 will bring hundreds of people into the Fuhrer Fieldhouse and you don’t want to miss out. It’s our chance to do something for the world; and a great opportunity to kick Prairie Wolf butt.

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EPS aims to improve Crete Company goal is to benefit local economy, improve homes and create jobs Not many companies can say they lift local economies, reduce greenhouse gases, make homes more efficient, provide jobs and make a profit.

Energy Pioneer Solutions can.

And, on Tuesday night, CEO Scott Kleeb explained how the company could do it in Crete in front of Crete City Council.

Energy Pioneer Solutions’ (EPS) business plan revolves around energy savings. Basically, they energy audit homes, fix them up so they are energy efficient and collect 50 percent of the profit from the savings.

All of the energy upgrades and improvements are paid for with a portion of the homeowner or business owner’s energy savings. This represents a win-win situation for EPS and the homeowner and has been successful in many cities across Nebraska and the country.

Over the period of a year, EPS improved 71 homes and saved families $8,872 in Broken Bow, Neb. In Central City, Neb., 25 homes were improved saving $7,091 and remitting 32 tons of carbon dioxide. For these two communities, EPS invested $50,000 and will recover that through energy savings in less than 5 years.

This is possible because our homes are vastly inefficient. According to the company’s website, the average home loses

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EPS CEO Scott Kleeb talks to community members at a past event about the benefits his company can provide. Kleeb talked to Crete City Council Tuesday about implementing a program in Crete.

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20 to 30 percent of its energy because of poor insulation and other efficiency issues. These percentages are particularly high in very old homes, which makes Crete a great candidate.

According to city-data.com, nearly 70 percent of homes in Crete were built before 1980, preceding many of the energy regulations home builders are

subject to today. This age likely means inefficiency and, for EPS, this means profit.

Kleeb said his company hoped to invest $2 million into Crete and improve over 3,000 homes. This money would pay for the energy audits and improvement work; the homeowner would not pay a dime.

The money will be replenished

and drive profit by taking a portion out of the energy savings.

Not only will the company help homeowners, it will stimulate business as well.

According to Kleeb, EPS will work through local contractors and purchase supplies locally, which will help Crete’s economy grow, according to Kleeb, to the tune of $12.2 million over a fiveyear period.

EPS has been recognized for its efforts by the Clinton Administration as a model program for energy efficiency and job creation.

In order to get out of recession and decrease our carbon impact, our country needs to make innovative companies like Energy Pioneer Solutions the highest priority.

School should use tuition freeze strategy

BY AUSTIN BOOHER Staff Writer Doane should freeze tuition for current students.

Last week a story was published pertaining to the increase in tuition for the 2012-2013 academic year.

The article noted that Vice President of Finance and Administration Julie Schmidt said, “If you think that it (Doane) has a lower price, you think, ‘well it must not be as good.’”

In response to Schmidt’s assumption, Doane is already known and noted for it’s quality education. One of the most well respected rankings list, Forbes, notes that Doane has continually been ranked in the top tier of private colleges, currently standing at No. 2 in Nebraska, and in the top 25 percent in the entire United States. Forbes also ranks Doane at No. 95 in the nation for ‘The Best College Buys,’

a list that ranks each school with respect to Who's Who in America citations, salary data from PayScale.com, course evaluations from RateMyProfessor.com, the awards received by students and faculty and the graduation rate variables used in the Best College rankings.

Considering Doane’s retention rate is 77.6 percent and current students are already up in arms about tuition rates, you would think that Doane, as an academic institution concerned about the integrity and well being of it’s students, would be willing to adapt a behavior similar to many of its “peers,” and to freeze tuition rates for current students.

Several competing schools give a four-year guarantee on tuition prices in the students’ first year. Although the school raises tuition almost every year, it has no affect on the current students. Incoming students’ financial aid is based on the new tuition rate, and yet, these

Thumbs up to the possibility of a new Doane campus in Omaha. Expansion to such a big city like that can only help promote the wonderful things a Doane education has to offer.

We hope the process goes smoothly.

Thumbs up to raising more funds for Relay For Life than Wesleyan University. Hopefully our success continues through the event, and we can raise more funds for the American Cancer Society than our rivals.

Thumbs up to the men’s and women’s track and field teams for their success at the NAIA Indoor Championships. Your No. 6 and No. 14 finishes make us proud to be Tigers.

Thumbs up to Sophomore Tim Carlson for his success in the baseball season so far. We hope your pitching continues to shut out the competition, and the team continues to win.

Thumbs up to the proposed updates to Fuhrer Fieldhouse.

The renovation will be beneficial to a large number of students on campus who participate in athletics.

- OPINION competing colleges of academic excellence still have incoming students, and manage to have higher retention rates, on average, than Doane. Concordia University’s retention rate is 78.8 percent and Nebraska Wesleyan University is currently sitting at 80.2 percent retention. These tuition rates will do nothing to show that Doane is a more valued academic institution, and instead will simply drive down retention rates that actually do prove this.

This raise in tuition isn’t the first. With an average increase in tuition of 6.4 percent over the past 10 years, it is quickly becoming impossible to be a full-time student at Doane, especially given the current economy. In comparison, Concordia has an average annual increase of 3.67 percent, and Wesleyan

has an average annual increase of 5.953 percent.

So where is the money from the raised tuition going? According to Schmidt, 63 percent of the increase is going to “instruction and instruction support.” That basically means professor salaries, supplies and field trips. The other 37 percent is going to preparations for next year. It is still unknown as to what exactly the whole 37 percent will be used for.

By raising our tuition once again, and refusing to re-evaluate students’ financial aid packages, the Board of Trustees is severely debilitating our academic body and institution as a whole. From here, our retention rate and rankings will only go down. It is in this manner that your abuse of our funding will single-handedly show that instead of suspecting that because our tuition rates are lower we are of a lesser academic caliber than our competing colleges, we will prove it.

Thumbs down to students who have not taken time to understand more about the gay community. Good thing Queer Straight Alliance will be hosting a Love Week after spring break to inform students in a fun way.

Thumbs down to the heavy workload of music education professors. Hopefully, the addition of Lance Nielsen in the fall will help relieve some stress for the other professors, and the department can continue to grow.

Thumbs down to Student Congress members not showing up to meetings and representing the students of the college. Hopefully the new members to replace junior Joe Knott, and senior Dustin Schwartz will have time to be involved in the group.

Thumbs down to an increase in the number of burglaries over the course of the past few years. We should all be old enough to know that we should respect the privacy and property of others.

Trustees should look at strengths To the Doane Board of Trustees: Guys...STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING! The reasoning behind the 'annual tuition raise' is (pardon my french) pathetic. If you are trying to position Doane's education as a value proposition, why not try to highlight the school's strengths, not the weaknesses?

If potential students truly think that our education is inferior to other colleges based on price, why not show them our ranking in the Forbes, Princeton Review, and US News top college lists, especially in comparison to all other Nebraskan colleges? Or show them our 11:1 student to teacher ratio. Show them our newly renovated Cassel Theatre or Frees, Sheldon and Smith Halls. Or show them our state of the art George and Sally Haddix Recreation and Athletic Center.

Or our award winning theater

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Doaneapalooza full of fun

- LETTER TO THE EDITOR program. Or how we offer all of these features, and more, at a lower price than the competitors!

I think I can speak on behalf of most students at Doane (and potential students) that the current debt we have from tuition is plenty. If the money was going to fund an actual service the students would receive, I would be more willing to accept this. I would like the Board of Trustees to reconsider this decision to raise tuition, if at all possible, and look into more "cost effective" ways to get students enrolled.

Sincerely, Stephen Papstein- Sophomore

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Student argues against reasons for tuition increase

I think I speak for the whole student body when I say I was pretty surprised to read Doane is raising tuition for next year.

Thoughts like “will I be able to come back next year,” “how am I going to afford schooling,” and “how many of my friends won’t be able to come back next year” rushed through my head. After completely reading the article and the following letter from Doane President Jacque Carter, I knew I had to let my voice be heard. Every single student I talked to about the issue was concerned, and this wasn’t just coming from one group either.

My friends in theater, music, speech, athletics, Greek groups and leadership groups all voiced concern. So to bring the students voices to the forefront, I

decided to do some research, and here it is.

First, let me just start by saying that the letters, quotations and statements made by the college staff are complete bullshit! I am sorry to say that in a newspaper, but I feel like that is the only word to describe what has been said. We are all mature enough and smart enough to realize when we are being totally taken advantage of.

Second, with the increase in tuition, Doane’s total costs per student without financial aid would be $32, 220. In the newspaper article Julie Schmidt, treasurer and vice president of finance and administration, noted that Doane was cheaper than both Hastings College and Wesleyan University. With the

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increase in cost, Doane would be more expensive than both of them: Hastings, $30, 514 and Wesleyan, $31, 558. This is based on all the institutions’ tuition prices for next year. I think any business major could tell you that being the most expensive is not necessarily being competitive.

Third, Kim Jacobs, vice president for student leadership, stated that not raising the tuition could have negative effects. Let me pose just one question for her; how much are you willing to give up by raising the tuition? Let’s be honest, raising the tuition is simply going to de-

crease diversity. I am extremely proud to say we have a very diverse campus; more diverse than many other campuses I’ve visited. If you raise the price of tuition, you are limiting the groups of people that can come here. Two of my great friends already had to drop out this year because they couldn’t afford to go here. So, Kim Jacobs, if you want all your “leaders” to be from the same demographic, then go ahead raise the price, but I feel like a real leader would be against discrimination even in the slightest sense.

Fourth, Joel Weyand, vice president for admission, said

that Doane helped “ease the cost” of its education by awarding financial aid. I just have one question for him; will more financial aid be awarded to current students to help “ease the cost” of their educations?

Lastly, I am so proud to be a Tiger, and I think I speak for the whole student body, again, when I say so. But, it’s not the price that makes the college, it’s the students. People aren’t going to want to come to Doane simply because it looks better on paper. When I chose to come here, Doane was less expensive than both Hastings and Wesleyan. I came here because of the awardwinning forensics team, the inspiring music program and the wonderful staff. I’m sure every student could name off the rea-

sons why he or she came here, and I will bet you not one says, “because it was more expensive than Hastings College, so obviously it was better.” I urge the administration to take pride in our college and the successes the students have brought to it.

That’s right, I said students. You wouldn’t have all the awards, titles and trophies without the students, so I urge the administration to humble themselves a little bit. Take a step back and remember what it’s like to have Tiger Pride. And last, if you are going to raise tuition price, don’t try to bullshit your way around the truth. Remember, we are nationally ranked, so we aren’t stupid.

Sincerely, Tyler Strobl- Freshman

English chairman, professor reacts to tenure article Dear Owl Editor: Owl Reporter Hannah Bauer’s Feb. 23 story covering the current faculty “tenure-line”/“of practice” appointments discussion is commendable.

The Owl editors’ suggestion that students value in professors what they teach rather than what degrees they hold, in the same issue of the paper, reveals insight and understanding.

However, a couple of things reported or said in both the article and editorial need slight clarification. First of these is that, in the faculty discussion, it was made clear we should never

lose sight of how important the terminal degree is in any field of specialization. The characterization of the terminal degree as a “barrier,” a characterization that arose in the discussion, was perhaps an injudicious word choice since the terminal degree, usually the PhD, represents the highest intellectual achievement one can attain in one’s field while still a student.

It is for this reason Doane, like most other colleges and universities, has historically identified attainment of this intellectual milestone as the sine qua non for tenure consideration.

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- LETTER TO THE EDITOR Tenure, the other matter needing clarification here, is not a guarantee for making more money or of job security as it is often misperceived to be. Tenure in higher or collegiate education, as opposed to tenure in public elementary, middle and secondary education, is the reciprocal relationship between the institution and the faculty that the institution, through its officers, faculty and members of the Board of Trustees, has

deemed worthy of “trust and commitment,” a distinction that appears in The Faculty Handbook and one that reflects a generally held view of tenure’s importance at the collegiate level. where the institutional governance structure is not corporatist or hierarchal but academic and horizontal or constituently established.

This condition of trust and commitment is expressed at Doane and elsewhere in the con-

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tinuous renewal of faculty members’ appointments after probation and the award of tenure. In exchange for that renewal, the reciprocal relationship is completed by faculty members’ continuing contributions to the institution, both in meeting daily obligations, such as teaching, service, etc., and in conducting research, the purpose of which is to increase knowledge through advancement of learning in faculty members’ fields of specialization, which usually results in the collateral benefit of improved teaching in the classroom.

It is not incorrect to conclude, thus, that tenure is a very important thing on the college or university campus--both in the greater knowledge it insures faculty members will attain and thereby impart to their students, and in the work faculty members complete professionally that redounds to the institution’s benefit, both immediately and in perpetuity.

Sincerely yours, L. O. Purdon Professor and Chairman of English Chairman, Faculty Affairs

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Stop Day Guide: 2012

What do you think about the declining meal balance?

“I think it’s a good idea, and it will save Doane students money in the long run.”

Kurt Harders-sophomore

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Students should be cautious of liquor violations on Stop Day by being smart

BY TYLER WEIHE Managing Editor Over the past two years, I’ve seen a lot of things go wrong on Stop Day. From MIP’s at the softball fields on Stop Day Eve to kids passing out before 11 a.m. on Stop Day morning, ruining your Stop Day could happen to anyone who is planning on drink-

ing heavily.

No worries. This year you have a guide to get you through the notorious day. So pull out a pen and paper and start taking notes every issue of the Doane Owl until Stop Day. Whenever that is.

The best way go about not ruining your Stop Day is by being smart, especially if you plan on drinking.

Safety Administrators and Residence Life can be pretty

sneaky when it comes to alcohol on Stop Day. Last year I was up at 9 a.m. on Stop Day. I went outside and sat at the picnic table with some of my roommates and talked to some of the Residence Life Directors.

At first, I was confused to why they were standing outside the quads, but within 30 minutes of sitting there, I realized they were waiting for students to try and sneak beer inside.

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The first kid, who was 21, tried to carry a .175 liter of vodka into the quads. Right away, Res Life noticed he had a bottle in his hand.

They confiscated it and cited him for a liquor violation. Not only did he lose some dignity, but he also lost a whole $10 worth of alcohol when Res Life confiscated the vodka. That’s what you get for buying cheap vodka!

The next two who tried carrying two cases of beer into one quad were minors, and they also had their beer taken away.

In their defense, who would have thought Res Life would

be hanging outside the quads policing the area for suspicious alcohol activity?

Safety and Res Life may also choose to smell your cup (if you’re walking around campus with a cup). Then there’s a good chance that someone will ask what’s in your cup.

Unfortunately that’s their job to follow the rules on campus, and the only way you can protect yourself from getting busted is by being creative.

I can’t give you any tips in here, but check out www.Doaneline.com, for some creative ideas to stay fine-free this Stop day.

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WZRD is a two-person rock group consisting of hip-hop artist Kid Cudi and his longtime producer Dot da Genius.

The two have collaborated on several of Cudi’s past records like his first hit “Day ‘N’ Nite,” the fan favorite “Dose of Dopeness” and the head-banger “Cleveland Is The Reason.”

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Number two: Even if you are a die-hard Cudi fan, you have to listen with an open mind. Because it is so different, you can’t compare it to anything from Cudi’s past work.

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On “Live & Learn” we hear a Cudi who is reflecting on his past experiences and in turn learning from them.

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Don’t get me wrong, this album is far from perfect. Cudi keeps his lyrics too simple at times, leaving songs with overreaching instrumentals and weak . Also for an 11 track album, a $9.99 price point is a little much.

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Track and Field All-American from Kenya

BY KEVIN ANDERSON Staff Writer

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Senior Edwin Ronoh poses with his All-GPAC trophy. He is male athlete of the year.

“All-American” is a term given to athletes who have proved themselves through competition to be the best in their position or event. Edwin Ronoh, a senior who runs on Doane’s track team, is a three-time All-American that he earned at one national track meet. He is not an American.

Ronoh was born in the small town of Kericho, Kenya. It is a small city that people hardly ever leave.

“People are born, live and die there,” Ronoh said. “I wanted a better life. I wanted to be something for my family.”

Ronoh is the oldest of five children. He spent all his life up through high school in Kericho. Eventually, he started applying to colleges in the United States but only for academic scholarships. The only sport he was involved with before college was soccer.

“My mom and my siblings have never seen me run,” Ronoh said.

Ronoh first went to Dickinson State University but did not stay there long. He first got involved in track because some of his friends did and qualified to go to nationals his freshman year. It was there he saw Doane’s large track team. He learned about Doane’s business program, which Dickinson did not offer, and transferred to Doane the Spring semester of his second collegiate year so he could get a degree in Business.

“He was pretty persistent about coming here,” Ed Fye, the head coach of the track team, said.

Coming from Kenya and transferring schools is just as difficult process as it sounds.

“Nothing’s given to him,” Fye said. “He’s here in the United States with what he brought.”

Ronoh supported himself for a while only with money from the work study program.

“He’s earned every penny,” Fye said.

But even though he was helped financially by track and cross country scholarships, he was not always the success he is now.

“He was a pretty average athlete at that time,” Fye said.

“Now he’s a team captain. I think that says a lot about his character and work ethic.”

Ronoh attributes his success to two things. First, he said he wants to inspire his siblings. The other one is much simpler.

“I hate losing. When I get into anything, I want to win it.”

Ronoh’s attitude has had a great influence on his teams as well as his coaches.

“He obviously has a different way of looking at things,” cross country coach Brad Jenny said. “You would expect that, knowing how and where he grew up . . . I think that our team has learned a lot from being around him.”

At this year’s national track and field conference, Ronoh competed in an unheard of three races in a single day. It is unusual for an athlete to compete in two a day.

“I was only doing it for the team,” Ronoh said. “I wanted the whole team to get the trophy.”

With Ronoh’s accomplishments, Doane finished No. 6 in the nation.

In his three races, Ronoh came in first in the mile as well as the 600 meter, and he came in third place in the 1,000 meter. Runners were expected to check in an hour before each event, but between his second and third race, he only had forty minutes.

“I had to get done (with the 600 meter),” Ronoh said, describing an encounter he had between the races. “When I was jogging back a guy on a team from Texas asked me, ‘Do you have a brother that goes to Doane?’ And I was like, ‘No, that was me . . .’ He thought I was crazy.”

Ronoh is planning on graduating in May 2012. He is currently interning with the company Kenexa in Lincoln.

“I like it,” Ronoh said. “There’s a good chance that I’ll apply for a job there.”

He currently lives in Crete with his wife, who works in Lincoln. But he said that he still has no defined plans. But if he does stay, he said he would like to stay involved with the track program that gave him so much.

“It’s nothing I’d thought about before,” Ronoh said.

“But being part of the team has been helpful to me. It’s made me disciplined, so I can help other people.”

Pole vaulter does good in community

BY ALEX DAWSON Staff Writer By the time you read this, senior Nate Teten could already be packing lunches for elementary children.

It’s just a typical Thursday afternoon for Teten, with some of his friends. He could even already be practicing for track & field or in class working on his already commendable GPA. A seven-time national qualifier in the pole vault, Teten was voted one of three team captains for the Doane track & field team by his peers. He is a 2011 Academic All-American and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, a leadership honorary society.

“He’s gonna give you a heck of an effort in whatever he chooses to do,” Head Track & Field Coach Ed Fye said.

Pole vault coach Ryan Dorshorst said Teten also valued his teammates and peers.

“He’s very determined and team oriented,” Dorshorst said. “He’d much rather see the team do great things as much as he would like to do great things himself.”

This was the case last weekend at the indoor track & field nationals, where Teten didn’t perform as well as he wanted. Both coach Dorshorst and Teten said they attributed this to the amount of pressure he put on himself.

Every year Teten comes extremely close to gaining the All-American honor, but unfortunately misses out by one or two places, Dorshorst said.

“He still supports his teammates, even if he is hurting inside,” Fye said. “It’s his role.”

Teten isn’t the type of person to let disappointment keep him down, Fye said. Instead, Fye said he used it as motivation to reach his goal of being in the top eight in the nation for pole vault, a feat

that would credit him an All-American.

“He has the desire, determination, and athletic ability to get that accomplished,” Fye said.

Teten said he enjoyed keeping busy, and he also understood the importance of academics.

“Academics have always been one of my biggest priorities,” he said.

He said that it was easy to stay focused because members of Delta Kappa Pi, the fraternity which he is a member of, value a similar academic approach.

His efforts off campus do not go unnoticed. Every Thursday Teten goes with a group of friends to Crete Elementary where he stuffs food into the backpacks of children eligible for aid. The food is donated by the United Church of Christ in Crete and allows children to eat over the weekend when school meals are not available. He has done this for three years. He was also a part of a charity run, along with other Doane track & field athletes, which helped raise donations for the church. Efforts such as these helped the Doane track & field team win the NAIA Indoor Track and Field Champions of Character Team Award earlier this year.

Dorshorst said he believed Teten had great potential to do well in the upcoming outdoor track & field season, which begins March 31.

“He’s going to be a hard worker,” Dorshorst.

“He’s going be that stand out person.”

In his final year at Doane, Teten said he would miss Doane and the track & field team greatly, especially the sense of competition. He said he was excited to get out and work, and given the opportunity, if he were to work in the nearby Crete area, he would love to come back and help out with the track & field team at Doane.

“He handles himself with a great deal of maturity,” Fye said. “On the road and on campus, he is a great facilitator for Doane. He represents Doane and his family very well.”

- IN BRIEF Doane Track and Field men’s and women’s finish towards top in NAIA

Courtesy Photo/Nate Teten

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Senior Nate Teten approaches the pole vault pit.

The Doane Track and Field teams both finished in the top fifteen last week in the NAIA Indoor Championships in Geneva, Ohio. The men finished No. 6 and the women finished No. 14.

Assistant Coach Brad Jenny said he was disappointed in the way the meet turned out for both teams.

“We wanted more,” Jenny said. “We had a string of top ten finishes and didn’t do as well as we expected.”

The women’s goal going into the meet was to finish top ten, Jenny said.

“We knew we had a young team nationally going into the meet,” Jenny said. “We had a lot of depth at the conference level, but not a lot of experience at the national level.”

Doane experienced great individual success at nationals, awarding 16 All-Americans and two relay All-Americans.

Junior Brijesh “BJ” Lawrence repeated as the 60 meter and 200 meter champion, and senior Edwin Ronoh was named All-American in three races; the 600, 1,000 and 4x 800 meter races.

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Softball @McPherson Tournament Sertling College 10:30 a.m.

Baseball vs. Sterling College 3:30 p.m.

Softball @McPherson Tournament Bethal College 8:30 a.m.

Men’s Tennis @Buena Vista University/ Cornell College 11:30 a.m.

Softball vs. Bellevue University 3 & 5 p.m.

Softball vs. Peru State College 2 & 4 p.m.

Tabor College 2:30 p.m.

Baseball vs. Sterling College 12 & 2 p.m.

Friends University 12:30 p.m.

Bethany College 4:30 p.m.

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Pitcher has 16 scoreless innings, 3-0 record

BY AUSTIN BENSON Staff Writer Sophomore Pitcher Tim Carlson first picked up a baseball when he was four years old. At age 19, he is now one of the most successful pitchers in Doane’s lineup.

The Tigers are 11-4 on the season, and Carlson has a record of 3-0, contributing to 16 scoreless innings. Carlson said his off season and winter work benefited his performances early this season.

“I lifted a lot more in preparation for this season than I have in the past,” Carlson said. “I feel that has given me better endurance throughout my starts, allowing me to pitch the way I have.”

Sophomore Pitcher Elliot Engle said Carlson has used the off-season to become a smarter pitcher.

“Tim’s early season success is due to him spending more hours in the weight room,” Engle said. “He has learned how to pitch smarter.”

Head Coach Jeremy Jorgensen attributed Carlson’s early season success to his day to day approach this spring.

“I lifted a lot more in preparation for this season than I have in the past.”

Tim Carlson-Sophomore “He has come in this spring with a great approach,” Jorgensen said.

“He has been working hard in between his starts, becoming more professional about his work.”

Having success did not come without adjustments Carlson said.

He worked with the coaching staff to change his mechanics, along with learning a new pitch.

“This January I worked on my mechanics with Coach Jorgensen,” Carlson said. “I also learned a new change up that has been really effective for me early on this year.”

Jorgensen said Carlson’s work ethic and ability put him in the spot where he was now.

“He is a very good pitcher and athlete,” Jorgensen said. “Tim (Carlson) is having success because he looks to get better and fine tune his craft.”

Sophomore Pitcher Tim Carlson has started the baseball season strong. His preparation and commitment during the off season helped him improve during the season.

Courtesy Photo/Tim Carlson

Walk off home run clinches Doane win “You can’t go up to bat with the intentions to hit a home run every time.”

BY KEVIN ANDERSON Staff Writer A three run walk off home run gave Doane’s softball team their first win of the season.

Freshman Nichole Diaz hit the home run over the left field wall to give the Tigers a 13-10 victory in the second game of a double header over the Kansas Wesleyan University Coyotes.

Doane lost the first game of the double header 5-3.

In the first game, Doane jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the Coyotes scored five runs in the sixth inning. The Tigers couldn’t rally afterwards, and neither team scored again, which made the final score 5-3.

Besides the Coyotes coming back from a shut-out game to taking the lead in one inning, the most notable moment of the game was when junior Alyssa Maraia scored the first runs of the game in the second inning with a two run homerun.

Head Coach Barry Mosley said that the first game’s loss may have been due to the fact that it was the first time they set foot on their home field, and it was the first collegiate game for many of the players. There were three freshmen in the starting line-up.

“We had a little nervousness out there,” Mosley said. “I think that led to the little fundamental things we didn’t do at critical moments.”

The second game was much closer and went into extra innings with both teams tied at eight at the bottom of the seventh inning. In the eighth, the Coyotes pushed ahead by two runs but the Tigers rallied.

Junior Andrea Gonzales hit a double, then stole home

Nichole Diaz-Freshman shortly later, tying up the game yet again, 10-10.

“We are a talented team that feed off of each others drive,” Diaz said. “When one of us are pumped up, we all become excited.”

“I think what helped us was that we learned from the first game and kept learning from the second game,” Gonzales said. “We were able to learn the pitcher after the first game.”

The game looked like it would go another inning until Diaz stepped up to the plate with two outs and a 2-0 count.

She hit a walk off home run that cemented the Tigers’ victory, 13-10.

“You can't go up to bat with the intentions to hit a home run every time,” Diaz said. “You have to go up to bat with the intentions to get a base hit . . .”

“The kids we recruited are tough,” Mosley said. “True athletes have a competitiveness inside them. After the loss of the first game, they rose to the challenge. They really got into it.”

The team is enthusiastic at the start of their season.

“The first game is a complete learning experience for us,” Gonzales said. “As long as we continue to get those kinks out, we will continue to become a solid ball team.

More solid than we are right now.”

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Junior Alyssa Maraia is waiting for the ball to reach her at first base.

Men’s tennis could finish best ever at Doane

BY RICHARD CREEGER Sports Editor The Doane College Men’s Tennis team will finish this season with a better record than it has in the past seven years.

The crazy part is, it won’t be because of the top three players.

In the past seven years, the men’s tennis team has a total record of 14-46 (8-41 in the Great Plains Athletic Conference). That is a win average of 23 percent.

Anyone can tell you that is not a good record.

The problem might be coaching.

Head Coach Pete Fiumefreddo took over the program in 2000 as the coach of both the men’s and women’s teams. In his final two years coaching both programs in 2005 and 2006, Fiumefreddo won a total of two games, and those were from the women’s team.

Since then, he has taken over solely as the men’s head coach. Fiumefreddo has a current to-

tal record of 14-32; a win percentage of 30 percent.

While the coaching is sub par, this year’s team has started undefeated. The men are currently 3-0, defeating Simpson College, Midland University and Bethal College.

Normally, one might think the success has to do with the teams top player, or, its “number one.”

I happen to disagree.

The top three players on the team, Ross Schulenberg, Sam Tipton and Chance Hoheusee, have played well. They have a combined record of 5-4, which isn’t bad. In the three matches they have played, Schulenberg has won two of his matches, Tipton has won one and Hoheusee has won two.

But the real story is the team’s bottom three players.

Last year alone, the bottom three players had a combined record of 15-30, throughout their season.

In its first three matches, Doane’s bottom half of the team, the No. 4, No. 5 and No. 6 players, have a combined record of 9-0.

- OPINION Freshmen Dylan Ramey, Joe Carey and Tyler Johnson, and sophomores Muijj Ghani and Phil

Cook, have all spent time this season playing as No. 4- No. 6.

In the last match versus Bethal, Johnson, Ramey and Carey were the bottom half. Yes, all freshmen.

Not only is this year’s team off to a hot start, the best start it has had in the last seven years, but the schedule is in the team’s favor.

Doane’s opponents have a combined record of 16-35 so far this season. A winning percentage of 31 percent.

If Doane is able to keep up with this hot streak it has started on, the team has a real chance at competing in the GPAC, something that has yet to be done since Fiumefreddo took over as head coach.

I predict that Doane will finish in the top three of the GPAC, and have a chance at winning the conference championship.

Doane plays their next match against the Buena Vista University (2-3) and Cornell College (7-4) at 11:30 a.m on March 10 in Storm Lake, Iowa.